What a difference a day makes. This is why I do this job. Our meeting was wildly productive, we have clear focus and goals and we’re working together in ways only a face to face meeting can produce. It’s so important for a geographically disperse team to come together.
Our first night, in retrospect, was a [...]
Let me first say, I do not feel comfortable being a team leader to a semi all volunteer team where each member works primarily for someone else, in another location, for local purposes and where their motivation is guided by becoming visible (and thereby, hopefully more employable) as the organization changes, becoming more global.
It’s amazing [...]
About what’s going on at work, that is. I have a couple of people on my team, one in particular, who is ambitious almost to a fault. I’ve gotten complaints about him from other team members about his pushiness and his lousy people skills. I’ve witnessed his tendency to be, shall we say, less than [...]
Today I learned that I was relieved of having to lead a team that I was really hating to lead. I dreaded any communication I had to have with this group because I had no expertise in the area. This was a different team than the one I wrote about in my previous post. This [...]
In a couple of weeks my virtual team will meet and move forward with a project we’ve been sitting on our hands (well not entirely, but almost) for over 6 months waiting for a new contract to be assigned.
This is what stokes my energy and gets me revved up. I am really looking forward to [...]
Not since high school has someone cautioned me to be aware of my reputation! Well, today one of the yahoos I work with let me know that I had better take care of something as my reputation was at stake.
To my detriment, I did not immediately let him know that I wasn’t even impressed by [...]
Almost a year ago I was introduced to Scott and Shannon Peck’s Love Center website. I bought an e-book at the time to send to my family as a Christmas present. As usual, one of my brothers was being really mean to my mother and I thought the message might help as well as offering [...]
Here I sit on a conference call where I don’t belong. This stuff is so uninteresting to me. Maybe it’s because I’m fairly close to retiring, I know that I don’t have to do this much longer.
So many problems. Systems management used to be fun, it’s no longer fun. I am moving towards my passion.
In [...]
